A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.
An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.
My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't. ' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.
I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.